one review claimed that the 2.6 series is slower on old hardware.
I guess I'll set up old-style ext2 on the box in question and make up some benchmarks. Keeping open file descriptors below 256 should not be that tough of a constraint, or I'll expand it... maybe not...
BSD 5.3 did not get along well at all with the 3c509 on the box in question, perhaps BSD 4 or earlier would.
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 11:18:24 -0600, Frank Wiles [email protected] wrote:
From what I've seen the 2.0 and 2.2 series are only still being maintained to help companies and users that for one reason or another can't upgrade. If I was starting a new project, server, etc I would go with the latest and avoid the older kernels.
Memory requirements are lower, hacking would be about the same, and a bunch of limits.
Unless you're trying to use an application that requires a 2.0 or 2.2 kernel or you're dealing in the embedded space I can't think of a single advantage to using an older kernel.